Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Wigeon (Anas penelope) & Shoveller (Anas clypeatus)
Marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Lapwing (Vanellus vamellus)
Cley
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
taking a preening moment in the sunshine before the fog came down again.
Cley
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Drake Teal (Anas crecca)
Pinkfooted Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus)
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Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis)
Kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Pinkfooted Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) coming in to roost after dark.
Tonight's moon
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Pintail (Anas acuta)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Cley
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax garbo)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Teal
Teal & Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Common Reed (Phragmites communis)
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Cley
Salthouse Church from the East Bank
A beautiful evening
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) quietly preening in the late afternoon light.
Quite serendipitously
down the
East Bank
and
Oh so close
A
Juvenile
Long Billed Dowitcher
(Limnodromus scolopaceus)
A high flying
daytime flying
Jinking about
Bat
Probably
a
Noctule Bat
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Reed (Phragmites communis)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Kingfisher (Alcedo althis)
Cley
Bar Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
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Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
House Martin (Delichon urba)
Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
Hirundines skimming the water.
Yellow Wagtail (Moticilla flava)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Cley
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
Snipe (Galinago gallinago)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Swallow (Hirundo rusticata)
Cley
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Two of the thirteen that flew in this morning.
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
A family party of four were present. Two adults, two juveniles.
Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana)
Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Cley
A very impressive new sculpture at Cley NWT
Alexander seed heads (Smyrnium olosatrum)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
A juvenile. The buff tips on the coverts & tertials give this away.
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
One adult, two juveniles
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Sea Club Rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocheropus)
Spoonbill (Platalia leucorodia)
Two youngster with the adult. Screaming for food! This all occurred within about three minutes.
The adult flew off closely followed by the youngsters.
Young Little Egerts (Egreta garzetta)
A Snipe flew in (Gallinago gallinago)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Cley
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferrugeana)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) with young Redshank behind.
Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
Cley
Redshank (Tringa totanus)
A moulting Adult.
You can clearly see the different ages of feathers in the tail and the tertials and secondaries..
Whereas the primaries have moulted.
Lots of moult in the head as well.
Reed Warbler IAcrocephalus scirpaceus)
Sedge Warble (Acrocephalus schoenobanus)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Cley
Adult male Reed Bunting (Embiriza schoeniclus)
Shoveller (Spatula clypeata) at take off & landing.
Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) really don't take kindly to intruders, including this Redshank. (Triga totanus)
A moment of hovering above the female before mating. (Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Mating Avocets
A moment together afterwards.
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Spoonbill gathering nesting material. (Platalea leucorodia)
Cley
Common Lizard
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Bar Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Common Sandpiper, 3 Wood Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint
Cley
Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) about to bloom.
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
Cley
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Shellduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Somewhat hazy but a Spoonbill nonetheless (Platalea leucorodia)
Coot (Fulica atra)
Cley
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Garganey (Anas querquedula)
and
the most stunning Adult ♂︎Kentish Plover.
resplendent in it's orange hind neck, pristine white underparts and black side markings.
From Birdguides
Cley
Alexanders (Smynium olusatrum)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) & Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Garganey (Anas querquedula)
Goldenfinch (Carduelis carduelis) in a 40mph gale.
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Reed (Phragmites communis)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Shellduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Cley
Garganey (Anas querquadula)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Cley
Garganey (Spatula querquedula)
Little Egret ( Egret garzetta)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Cley
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Pale-bellied Brent (Branta bernicla hrota)
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Cley
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
The beginnings of the Spring display.
Lapwing ready for Spring. (Vanellus vanellus)
Lapwing, BlackTailed Godwit, Ruff, Starling
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Cley
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Pintail (Anas acuta)
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Reed Bunting (Embiriza schoeniclus)
Shellduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Cley
from
Salthouse Hill
Looking towards Salthouse from the Beach Road
Looking towards Blakeney from the Beach Rd
Brent & Golden Plover over the Eye Field
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Brent (Branta bernicla) plus one.
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Pink Footed Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) in the evening light.
Cley
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Cley
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Shellduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Pintail (Anas acuta)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Cley
The Hares didn't bat an eyelid.
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Cley
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) in the morning light.
Marsh Harrier in the evening light.
About three thousand Pinkfeet graced the Cley fields this morning and then left to roost elsewhere later in the day.
Utterly stunning.
The photographs just scratch the surface of such sublime moments.
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Teal beginning to strut their stuff for the spring.
Teal (Anas crecca)
Wigeon (Anas clypeata)
Cley
Midwinter flypast of the Lapwing (Vanellus vaniellus) flock
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Cley
Black Redstart ♀︎ (Phoenicurus ochruros)
Waxwing (Bombycill garrulus) Ad ♀︎
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Cley
Avocet (Recurvirostra avocetta) basking in the sunshine,
Three of the four youngsters in this family of Brent (Branta bernicla)
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Cormorant (Phlocracorax garbo) thought the reeds.
Reeds (Phragmites communis)
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Common Reed (Phragmites communis)
Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Shoveller (Anas clypeata) scattered by a passing Marsh Harrier
Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)